Re: Round up resistant plants

This is potentially scary stuff. I think it out to be a felony to
create [engineer] a plant unless you also create [engineer] a way to
kill it. I can see a whole continent covered with creeping bent grass
and, in the south at least, kudzu.

On Friday, January 23, 2004, at 01:40 PM, TeichFlora@aol.com wrote:

Article:
Are Roundup-ready ornamentals in our future? Cotton and soybean
varieties
genetically engineered for resistance to glyphosate (Roundup herbicide)
have become row-crop industry norms. However, the nursery/landscape
industries have been slower to incorporate such technology into turf
and
ornamentals. This is changing, as Monsanto and Scotts Co. have filed a
petition to approve a creeping bentgrass genetically engineered to
resist
Roundup damage. If this plant is approved, and becomes accepted by the
public, one could only guess that genetically engineered ornamentals
would
follow.http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/news/2004/01/bentgras_brs.html